“We are in 2023, we are preparing for 2024 and 2027, it’s a long way off,” said Elisabeth Borne, questioned on Wednesday August 23 on the ambitions of her Minister of the Interior. Indeed, Gérald Darmanin, who will make his political comeback in Tourcoing (North) on Sunday August 27, recently mentioned the presidential election of 2027. According to Élisabeth Borne, interviewed on France Bleu, the minister “brings together his relatives in Tourcoing. For my part, my concern is really the cohesion of the government, the effectiveness of the action of the government, the unity of the majority”.
“I can assure you that Gérald Darmanin is at work […] There are purchasing power concerns, there are heat wave concerns, there are security concerns, the government is at work” , insisted Ms. Borne.
The Minister of the Interior, who campaigned in vain to replace Ms. Borne at Matignon, is organizing his first major political comeback on Sunday in his electoral stronghold in the North, where several ministers, parliamentarians from the majority but also Republicans (LR) are expected. ), on the theme of “working classes”. “What interests me is no longer looking at what happened in 2017 and 2022. What interests me now is what will happen in 2027,” Gérald Darmanin recently said. to the newspaper Le Figaro, criticizing the “technicians” who use “words that the French do not always understand” and the “bobo-liberal left” represented in the government.
On Wednesday, Elisabeth Borne insisted on the necessary “unity of the majority”. She received this week the leaders of the three parties making up her relative majority in the National Assembly, Stéphane Séjourné (Renaissance), François Bayrou (MoDem) and Édouard Philippe (Horizons).
For his part, Emmanuel Macron must, in an interview with Le Point magazine to be published this week, reveal the outlines of the “major initiative” he intends to take for the return to politics. The Head of State has already mentioned meetings with the political forces “of the republican arc” to research on a case-by-case basis, on key but often divisive themes such as immigration, order, work, services public or ecology, majorities in the National Assembly.
The government, which is already preparing to reactivate article 49.3 of the Constitution for the adoption of budgets this fall, remains under the threat of a motion of censure. The attitude of the Republicans (LR), part of whose troops at the Palais-Bourbon failed on the pension reform, will be particularly scrutinized, after a political agreement reached between the government and the leaders of the party.
